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Potsdam- where Truman met Stalin; located near Berlin. It was the place where they planned to make a deal, but Stalin opposed his offers and ideas. It is also where Truman learned about the Atomic bomb and told Stalin of it, forcing Stalin to accept the deal. It marked another increase of tension between the USSR and the U.S. furthering the start of the Cold War.

Massive retaliation- to threaten to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force. It enabled Eisenhower to cut a great amount of military money and to increase America’s nuclear arsenal.

Containment- to keep communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions.

It was Americas policy throughout the Cold War. If the U.S. could follow through with this policy and keep the Soviets from expanding their power the Soviets system would crumble.

McCarran Act- made it illegal to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment of a totalitarian government; communists must register with govt. & be watched

The Long Telegram influenced American policy by creating the policy of containment, which kept communism with in it’s present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions. It circulated widely around Truman's administration / long and patient opposition to communism

The U.S. strategy was a patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. This was followed because the Soviet system was believed to have several major economic and political weaknesses. If they could stop the expanding then the Soviets system would fall and the matter of Communism would not have to be settled by war.

Both addressed the spread of Communism by pledging the U.S to fight communism worldwide. Also to aid the Greek government in which the Greek communists launched guerrilla war upon because the Soviets wanted to expand and control the mid east. The Marshall plan followed the doctrine to aid all of Europe to rebuild there economies and to escape communism and its spreading.

2. Defense agreements were signed with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Australia

America aided in fighting Communist guerrillas in Vietnam

The Little Rock Nine, were nine African American kids who went to Central High school at the time they were desegregating it. Troops would have to escort them to every class and wait for them outside the classroom because the white students would throw things at them, beat them, and potentially kill them.